National Intelligence Estimate
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It never happened. You hear it all the time. Jeb! Bush defends his hawkishness by saying that Senator Clinton voted for war. Another thing that you've heard from the Wrong is that Congress saw ...
by Woody25
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on Wed Aug 19, 2015 at 06:14 AM PDT
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Everything was just "swell" then, wasn't it?
"Freedom was really on the March" then.
"Terrorism events" were never used to change public perceptions then. That would be beyond the Bush ...
by jamess
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on Fri May 10, 2013 at 03:30 PM PDT
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I've written a few times recently about my petition requesting the Obama administration ...
by weldon berger
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on Fri Dec 07, 2012 at 01:03 PM PST
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Don't stop me if you've heard this before.
One would like to believe that in the face of a massive and growing emergency, our benevolent governors will recognize the need to do something, figure ...
by weldon berger
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on Wed Dec 05, 2012 at 10:43 AM PST
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Not so far.
Kos readers are no doubt uniformly familiar with the spate of petitions to secede from the United States that popped up on the White House "We the People" forum following the ...
by weldon berger
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on Sun Dec 02, 2012 at 12:30 PM PST
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Go here to sign the petition requesting a National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change.
National Intelligence Estimates provide the consensus view on a particular intelligence/security issue ...
by weldon berger
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on Fri Nov 30, 2012 at 04:30 PM PST
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Cross posted in Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollows Gazette
Recently, President Obama gave a speech at the U.N with a recurring theme ...
by priceman
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on Thu Sep 27, 2012 at 07:28 AM PDT
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On Friday, President Obama denounced as "offensive" and "wrong" allegations that he was behind the leaks of U.S. cyber attacks on Iran and the terrorist "
by Jon Perr
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on Mon Jun 11, 2012 at 05:25 PM PDT
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Only in America.
Only in America, could a person rise to prominence despite all outward forces holding them back.
Only in America, could a nation proclaim such noble humanitarian values, and ...
by jamess
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on Sun Jan 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM PST
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If there's one thing Chicken-Hawks know about, it's about how to put other people's kids into Harm's Way ... whether or not there is evidence to justify the Military action or not.
Long as there'
by jamess
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on Sat Jan 21, 2012 at 05:01 PM PST
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On Tuesday the Iraqi defector known as Curveball [admitted http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/defector-admits-wmd-lies-iraq-war] he'd made up his claims about secret biological weapons in ...
by Th0rn
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on Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 04:42 PM PST
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Colin Powell wants to know why he was fed information about secret biological weapons in Iraq that both the CIA and ...
by Th0rn
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on Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 05:58 PM PST
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Rumseld with Diane Sawyer.
Rumsfeld: The idea that he (Powell) was lying (before the U.N.) or duped is nonsense. He believed it.
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 12:52 PM PST
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One week after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told the press corps, "This isn't Pearl Harbor." No, it was worse.
In 1941, the ...
by Mel Goodman
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on Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 11:53 AM PST
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Why the fawning Media runs to cover, every ranting statement that Dick Cheney, mumbles -- I'll never understand? When really they should be bringing him a Blanket, a Rocking Chair, and maybe a ...
by jamess
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on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 07:27 PM PST
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That House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has badly bungled the imbroglio over ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed May 20, 2009 at 12:39 PM PDT
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For the right wing noise machine when it comes to MidEast policy they forge a truth that is better held together by the force of narrative rhetoric and metaphor than by fact. So it comes as no ...
by jazzence
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on Wed Feb 25, 2009 at 03:35 PM PST
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It's become a common refrain from the McCain Campaign to crow about how prescient their candidate was about the Success of the Surge , and how Barack Obama supposedly "refuses to admit" that it'
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 09:17 AM PDT
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I really hope the press will be more than just parrots this time around. Reported in [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avrBXuuDL_Kw&refer=worldwide Bloomberg yesterday]:
by Bob Sackamento
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on Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 11:34 AM PDT
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January 5, 1995
Iran May Be Able to Build an Atomic Bomb in 5 Years, U.S. and Israeli Officials Fear
By CHRIS HEDGES,
[http://query.nytimes....
by Bob Sackamento
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on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 09:03 PM PDT
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